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Among the wildest thing one can get on four legs, as I spontaneously like to put it… When one looks at this red, little cute dog it is easy to imagine that one gets a wolly, sweet dog for fondle and companion. Nothing could be more wrong... The toller are a fantastic pet dog under the right circumstances, both mind and body have to have a lot of correct and varied stimulation. It's a most active dog that easily can be bored if its owner isn't ingenious enough. A toller is a quick learner, both when it comes to good and bad things, which means that the owner besides ingenuity also must possess the qualities of consequence and being both gruff, extra interesting and fun when needed. The toller are our smallest retriever, but to be fooled by its size, is doing both yourself and the dog a bad turn. The toller or more correctly the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever descends from the Nova Scotia territory in Canada. Duck Tolling refers to the tollers characteristic ability to toll/attract birds so that they get within reach of the hunters and their rifles. This is a most special characteristic, that also dogs of other breeds could be trained to do, but the toller has a long history to fall back on regarding this ability. In 1984 the first toller came to Sweden, the import of Ardunacres Sandy Wonderful. The breed has since then during the years had steady growth and Sweden has actually today the worlds largest number of tollers, Canada included. As a average per year, about 300 tollers are registered. To own a toller implies, as we like to put it, an obligation to defend their original characteristics. The tollaren is primarily a hunting-dog with retrieving attributes – these ancestry dates as far back as the 17th century. This is a fantastic allround dog that is successful within eg obedience and at the agility track, but it is within the hunting areas that the toller really shows to advantage. It is a real treat to see how the toller for example throws himself in the water to retrieve a bird, this can't be compared to anything in anyway. A lot of toller owners become unsure when facing game training, and cultivate the dogs within other areas, but with the right kind of assistance, everyone can get the possibility to at least insert exercises in their training to keep and hopefully increase the game spontaneity and the desire for retrieving. One doesn't need to become a hunter to be able to train the natural characteristics of the dog .
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About the Toller